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La Plata County, Colorado
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La Plata County is one of the 64 counties in the U. S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 51,334, the county was named for the La Plata River and the La Plata Mountains. La plata is the Spanish language word for silver, La Plata County comprises the Durango, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The county is home to Durango Rock Shelters Archeology Site, the site for the Basketmaker II period of Anasazi culture. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 1,700 square miles. The population density is 26 people per square mile, there are 20,765 housing units at an average density of 12 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county is 87. 31% White,5. 78% Native American,0. 40% Asian,0. 31% Black or African American,0. 05% Pacific Islander,3. 90% from other races, and 2. 25% from two or more races. 10. 40% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race,24. 80% of all households are made up of individuals and 6. 10% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.43 and the family size is 2.92. In the county, the population is out with 22. 70% under the age of 18,13. 90% from 18 to 24,29. 00% from 25 to 44,25. 10% from 45 to 64. The median age is 36 years, for every 100 females there are 103.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 103.10 males, the median income for a household in the county is $40,159, and the median income for a family is $50,446. Males have an income of $32,486 versus $24,666 for females. The per capita income for the county is $21,534,11. 70% of the population and 6. 70% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the population,9. 30% of those under the age of 18 and 7. 70% of those 65

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Durango Rock Shelters Archeology Site
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Durango Rock Shelters Archeology Site is also known as the Fall Creek Rock Shelters Site. An Ancient Pueblo People archaeological site, it is located in Durango in La Plata County, People from the Late Basketmaker II and Basketmaker III Eras inhabited the site between AD1 and 1000. The site is known as 5LP4134. Earl H. Morris conducted an excavation of this open site in Animas Valley in 1938-1939. The floor area was scooped out to shallow saucer shape—in this case 9 m. in diameter—and coated with mud, at the margins, the mud curved upward to end against the half-buried foot logs which were the basal course of the wall. The walls were composed of wood and mud masonry. Indigenous peoples sites in Colorado Fall Creek Canyon Basketmaker mummy Fall Creek Rock Shelters, Reanalysis of Basketmaker II Site Durango Rock Shelters, Tree-Ring Bulletin

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KSUT
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KSUT originally signed on as a non-commercial community radio station licensed to serve the community of Ignacio, Colorado. While the stations have different legal call letters, both stations still refer to themselves on-air, online, and in marketing as KSUT, the stations are owned by KSUT Public Radio, a non-profit corporation, and licensed to KUTE, Inc. On May 7,1975, this station received its construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission and was assigned the call letters KSUT. At the time, it was one of only eight Native American radio stations operating in the United States, a May 1979 relocation of the broadcast transmitter and increase in signal strength allowed KSUT to begin serving the larger surrounding community as well. Four Corners Public Radio, as it came to be known, added several affiliates, the station adopted a daily music format called the Music Blend that focused on Americana, rock, folk, bluegrass, jazz, blues, world and other genres. Four Corners Public Radio also added more conventional public radio shows like Fresh Air, KSUT split its program stream into two stations, and two sets of similar call letters, in June,1998. KUTE-FM assumed the Four Corners Public Radio format, serving a regional audience with NPR programming. KSUT-FM, now branded as Southern Ute Tribal Radio, returned to its mission of serving the reservation. In addition to the Music Blends, locally-produced programming on Four Corners Public Radio includes evening blues, alternative country, Celtic, world, kSUT-FM, known as Southern Ute Tribal Radio, airs programming from Native Voice 1. KSUT Tribal Radio airs locally-produced Native American programming in the mornings, mid-days, local programming includes the Tribal Radio Morning Show, Native America Calling, and Sounds of the Dreamcatcher. In November 1999, KSUT Four Corners Public Radio took top honors in the Special Projects category by the El Pomar Foundation for its annual Awards for Excellence. Based in Colorado Springs, the El Pomar Foundation is the state of Colorados largest private foundation, the station also received top honors for 2007 in the areas of community service campaign, best news feature report, and best sales promotion for an advertiser. KSUT was chosen as the Best Radio Station in Durango in the Durango Heralds Readers Polls in 2013,2014 and 2015, kSUT-FM, Southern Ute Tribal Radio is heard on 91.3 FM on Southern Ute Tribal lands, Ignacio, and Bayfield. The station is rebroadcast in Farmington, N. M. on KUUT-FM, kUTE-FM, Four Corners Public Radio is heard on 90.1 FM in La Plata County, Colo. The station is rebroadcast in central Durango on KDNG-FM, at 89.1 FM, in Farmington, N. M. on KUSW-FM at 88.1 FM, Four Corners Public Radio is also heard on the following translators, K216GF91.1 FM Silverton, Colo. K287AC105.3 FM Farmington KSUT website Query the FCCs FM station database for KSUT Radio-Locator information on KSUT Query Nielsen Audios FM station database for KSUT

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Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Their reservation is headquartered at Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are descendants of the Weeminuche band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. The use of lands in the Four Corners area, where the Ute Mountain Ute tribe now live, though, most anthropologists agree that Utes were established in the Four Corners area by 1500 C. E. The Ute people were hunters and gatherers who moved on foot to hunting grounds, the men hunted animals, including deer, antelope, buffalo, rabbits, and other small mammals and birds. Women gathered grasses, nuts, berries, roots, and greens in woven baskets, They also processed and stored meat, Ute in the western part of their territory lived in wickiups and ramadas, Hide tipis were used in the eastern reaches of their territory. As a result of American westward expansion, the Utes now possess only a fraction of the land that they once traveled seasonally. The Ute people consist of three populations of people, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation near Fort Duchesne in northeastern Utah, the Southern Ute live on a reservation in southwestern Colorado near Ignacio. The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe headquartered in Towaoc, Colorado, the subjects of this article, the Mesa Verde Region, the present day area containing the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe reservation and the Mesa Verde National Park, was the northern most edge of the colonial territory of Spain. Initial exploration of the American Southwest by the Spanish occurred in 1540 and they established their first capital near the pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh, which they renamed San Juan de los Caballeros. In 1626 an account was taken of the Utes by a Spanish scribe in New Mexico, about 1640 the Utes began trading with the Spanish for horses. Spanish traders followed trails to Ute villages and Utes traveled to New Mexican towns, the Utes brought buckskin, dried meats, furs, and slaves to exchange for horses, knives, and blankets. Spanish officials negotiate the first peace treaty with the Utes in 1670, in search of gold, Juan de Rivera made three expeditions between 1761 and 1765 from Taos through southwestern Colorado to the Gunnison River. He did not return with gold, but did trade with Utes. Beset by hunger and illness, the men turned back at Salt Lake Valley, the maps and information provided from the expedition provided useful information for future travel and their route from Santa Fe to the Salt Lake Valley became known as the Old Spanish Trail. The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819 established a boundary line between Spanish and United States possessions in the southwest. Spanish territory included the southern plains, a part of the western Rocky Mountains. Even with the boundary, the Spanish did little to maintain their northern borders, when Mexico gained its independence from Spain, the Spanish lands became Mexican land. American fur trappers headed into the frontier in 1811 and encountered the Utes

La Plata County, Colorado
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La Plata County is one of the 64 counties in the U. S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 51,334, the county was named for the La Plata River and the La Plata Mountains. La plata is the Spanish language word for silver, La Plata County comprises the Durango, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The county is home to Durango R

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Location in the state of Colorado

Durango Rock Shelters Archeology Site
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Durango Rock Shelters Archeology Site is also known as the Fall Creek Rock Shelters Site. An Ancient Pueblo People archaeological site, it is located in Durango in La Plata County, People from the Late Basketmaker II and Basketmaker III Eras inhabited the site between AD1 and 1000. The site is known as 5LP4134. Earl H. Morris conducted an excavatio

KSUT
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KSUT originally signed on as a non-commercial community radio station licensed to serve the community of Ignacio, Colorado. While the stations have different legal call letters, both stations still refer to themselves on-air, online, and in marketing as KSUT, the stations are owned by KSUT Public Radio, a non-profit corporation, and licensed to KUT

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KSUT

Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Their reservation is headquartered at Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, t

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Ute Mountain, of the Sleeping Ute Mountain range

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Ute Native Americans, 1878, Arizona Historical Society

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Ute wickiup used in the western regions

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Tipis painted by George Catlin who visited a number of tribes in the 1830s and recorded Native American daily life